Washington County’s Republican commissioners avoid elections forum
May 25, 2024 | Gary Stout | Observer-Reporter
On May 14, the Washington County Bar Association, along with several other organizations, sponsored a well-attended public forum at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe, Pennsylvania. The program focused on state and local elections and voting rights.
The nonpartisan panel was to include, among others, former Gov. Tom Corbett and Tim Lewis, a retired Republican federal judge from Western Pennsylvania. Corbett and Lewis are members of a nonprofit civic education organization Keep Our Republic. Their work “is focused on unconventional threats facing our election system and on ways to help strengthen trust in our electoral system.”
The panel wanted the audience to leave the forum with two primary thoughts:
- The need to educate the voting public on our state and local election systems; and
- The value of evidence when investigating voter fraud.
Washington attorney Gary Stout attended the event and provides his opinions regarding the Republican Washington County commissioners’ decision to not participate in the forum. …